Eras Quotes - Page 5

• The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Men, Ideas, Majority

  Leonard Peikoff (1983). “Ominous Parallels”, p.179, Penguin

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• If anything I consider myself non-violent. I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

  Rick James

  Love, Peace, Violent

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• My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important

  Dennis Eckersley

  Careers, Important

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• I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

  Lara St. John

  Grateful, Past, Lucky

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• Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

  Fatos Nano

  Issues, Borders, Today

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• I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

  Stan Getz

  Sound, Use, Bass

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• Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much to compare our fellow citizens with. Only a few colleagues who seemed different from most people, more engaged, but that was hardly a surprise. History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Before the operation there were wars and mass hatred and clear cutting. Whatever these lesions make us, it isn’t a far cry from how humanity was in the rusty era. These days we’re just a bit easier to manage.

  Scott Westerfeld

  War, Cutting, Sheep

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• I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

  Johnny Depp

  Time, Born, Has Beens

  "The Crowded Mind of Johnny Depp". Interview with, www.vanityfair.com. January, 2011.

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• In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.

  Boris Pasternak

  Change, War, Learning

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• In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salvation. As we begin to master the destructive potentialities of modern science, we move toward a new era in which science can fulfill its creative promise and help bring into existence the happiest society the world has ever known.

  John F. Kennedy

  Moving, Science, Men

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• ... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn't elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  War, Patriotic, Parent

  Sarah-Patton Boyle, Jennifer Lynn Ritterhouse (1962). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition”, p.6, University of Virginia Press

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• I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those things, a search for spirituality, for nature, for the goddess religions, for family and human bonding. All that has been lost in this industrial era. People are in desperate need of those things. I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

  Isabel Allende

  Past, Thinking, People

  "“Skirting the Brink: America’s Leading Thinkers and Activists Confide Their Views of Our Predicament”". Interview with Bob Baldock and Dennis Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. September 1994.

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• Much of the research on the Nazi era makes a science out of distancing oneself from it or conjuring its demons. The conceit is that people were monsters then - as if they were completely different from people today.

  Gotz Aly

  People, Monsters, Different

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We're in an era of no rules now, it seems.

  Oliver Stone

  People, Acting, Way

  "Oliver Stone Talks SAVAGES, the Unconventional Ending, and the Hypothetical Fiction of Cartels". Press conference, collider.com. July 2, 2012.

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• During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Years, Prison, Crime

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Hip hop is ever changing and has definitely entered a new era. Many fans have mixed feelings over the direction of rap as more and more artists are emerging with content that some would describe as less than meaningful.

  Eric Thomas

  Meaningful, Rap, Artist

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• There was a generation of kids who were just kind of emulating distant heroes and wearing peace symbols, and parents who were thinking of themselves as liberal and removed from barbarity, but it also was the era of Vietnam. I very much was influenced - and I think the whole country was kind of in a state of shock - for the first time seeing the horror and cruelty of war.

  Wes Craven

  Country, War, Hero

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I'm hugely inspired by the '60s and the '70s. I just love the music of that time and the overall freedom of that era. I love that the idea of clashing didn't really exist. You could mix prints on prints, you could mix fabrics and colors - and it was more about the way you felt than about the label and trends. That's something that I've always gravitated towards.

  Nicole Richie

  Color, Ideas, Labels

  Source: community.qvc.com

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• I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.

  Alexander McQueen

  Lying, Thinking, Editors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wouldn't mind gigging around the same era as Jesus, after he gives his speech about the meek and how blessed they are and all that type of bullshit, going up there and doing a flat 20 [minutes]. I reckon I'd have better stagecraft and presence than Jesus. Yea, I'm a better stand-up comedian than Jesus, so I reckon I could go on after him.

  Jim Jefferies

  Jesus, Blessed, Bullshit

  Source: manofmany.com

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• For many people, God is primitive, behind, trying to drag everything back to some prehistoric era as opposed to spirit, force, love, drawing us into a better future, which to me is - that story has done something in me and I've seen it do things in other people.

  Rob Bell

  Drawing, People, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

  Al Pacino

  Air, Actors, Bigs

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, possibly we will have sense enough to meet at the conference table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or die.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Race, Understanding

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• In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras. I got to fully experience and appreciate both the tragedy of Somalia and the beauty of it.

  K'naan

  Beautiful, War, Hard Times

  "K’naan: Straight Outta Mogadishu". Interview with Eamon Kircher-Allen, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• President [Ronald] Reagan never has tried to become an expert on military matters. He never has endeavored to learn the most important details in that field, which lead to a situation in which his aides played a much greater roles than aides would have played under President Ford or let us say in the whole Nixon-Ford-Kissinger era.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Military, President, Important

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